Looking in Tile Bins

[White Room]

Worked in London and some of the gear that was being thrown out old buildings, one guy I worked with had an old dentist chair out of a skip, god knows why and weighed a ton.

 

[DHTiling]

Glad hugos back

Meeee tooooooooooooooo

 

[cornish_crofter]

Worked in London and some of the gear that was being thrown out old buildings, one guy I worked with had an old dentist chair out of a skip, god knows why and weighed a ton.

When I was in Leicester our friend's eldest daughter arrived home with something that she claimed to have found in a skip. They explained to her that taking things from a skip without the owner's permission was not advisable after quizzing her about where the skip was etc and strongly suggested she didn't do it again.

Shortly afterwards they went to find the skip. There were STACKS of boxes of carpet tiles there and a few other new unused materials. Suffice to say they managed to get enough carpet tiles to do a couple of rooms from this skip.

Not only that but some other friends who lived down the same road did exactly the same thing.

The skip was there because a branch of Jessops (camera shop) was being completely refurbished. One assumes that they over ordered carpet tiles or the wrong sort were sent and the supplier wouldn't take them back.

All I can say is that the contractors must have been saved the cost of a skip due to the volume of stuff that came out!

 

[White Room]

A lot of people have wised up to skip rummages and what they throw out, unless you are around the rich areas

 

[cornish_crofter]

When I was working in London for my sister, doing a few odd jobs I had removed the old galvanised tanks from the lofts.

I cut them up and put them into the drive. When the skip arrived the driver said "Whatever you do don't leave that steel out here. It will disappear the same day"

Well, as you can imagine, I couldn't get rid of it myself and I wanted to put as little as possible in the skip, so I put the scrap in front of the skip facing the road. The next day someone stopped and asked if they could take it. We were impressed they asked to be honest. So we helped load it into their truck.

When I'm at home I collect scrap until I have about half a tonne of assorted and then take it to the scrap yard up the road, properly sorted, but I have no Idea where the scrap yards are in Richmond and there wasn't enough there to make it worth my while anyway. I certaily wasn't going to take it home with me - my sister had had a laod of plants dug up from her garden and my wife wanted some of them, so I had a 'shopping list' for those :LOL:

 

[Scott]

I've been known to do a bit of Skip diving myself. Got a remnant of door entrance matting from KFC when tey built that in Aylesbury. Saved my carpet no end of times from the kids coming it with muddy feet

 

[mikethetile]

ah I was missing the skip foraging tales. good to see you back Hugo

 

[Michael kiss]

Just leave me the discontinued one's :hurray:

 

[doug boardley]

Mr "Hugo" Trebus

 

[Scott]

He was a legend!